James Otto

A country singer and songwriter with a Southern rock heart, James Otto was born into a military family at the Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington and grew up all over the U.S., including extended stays in North Dakota and Alabama. He started singing when he was only four years old, and learned both violin and saxophone before getting his first guitar at the age of 13. Both his father and grandfather were part-time musicians who played gigs in local bars, so music was hardly a foreign thing to Otto, but it wasn't until he spent time with his mother in Sand Mountain, AL, that he really discovered the joys of country music. After graduating from high school, Otto did a two-year stint in the U.S. Navy and, following his release from active service, he moved to Nashville in 1998, attending various songwriting nights at the clubs there, soon falling in with the so-called MuzikMafia, a feisty group of writers and musicians including Big & Rich and Gretchen Wilson, who became the central players in a CMT reality show called MuzikMafia TV. The exposure landed Otto a record deal with Mercury Nashville and he released a handful of singles and an album, 2002's Days of Our Lives, before being dropped by the label in 2004. Following a small screen role in Road House 2, he rebounded by signing with Raybaw Records, a Warner Bros. imprint, and releasing a second album, Sunset Man, produced by his brother-in-law (and Rascal Flatts member) Jay DeMarcus, in 2008. Sunset Man generated one big hit with the chart-topping Just Got Started Lovin You and raised Ottos profile considerably, leading to several co-writing gigs including authoring Jamey Johnsons In Color, which won Song of the Year at the 2008 Academy of Country Music Awards. Otto returned with his third album, Shake What God Gave Ya, in the fall of 2010. ~ Steve Leggett, Rovi

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1 year ago

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puirsuit25

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I saw James in concert at the memphis midsouth fair. I must say he was awsome and I hope he comes agian in Desoto county fair... See him if you have the chance. Just waitin to see whats next I know it will be great...

6 years ago

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ssnider43

Saw the Muzik Mafia in concert w/ Hank Jr. back in 2005 or 2006 and he was the headliner for the MM portion of the show. In my opinion he sang Hank under the table, but you couldn't tell the jack***es in the row behind me that that kept yelling "Freebird" and "Where's Hank?" Glad to see this guy doing well!

6 years ago

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mcrow174

That is Fort Lewis, Washington; not "Louis"."...was born into a military family at the Fort Louis Army Base in Washington..."

This man can sing with the best of them. My favorite song of James, is Just Got Started Lovin You. It will take a while before I know the song by heart, but with some help from a very dearest friend, I will get there. God Bless All Keith , fishrman_04